Busy. Seeing as it's almost November 1st, I plan to outline my NaNoWriMo project. I'll also catch up on a couple of Burn Notice VOD episodes due to expire at 11 p.m. tonight. Probably also play a bunch of indoor fetch and tug of war with our dogs, who didn't get their full-out romps today thanks to my rehearsals. Between 6 and 8 p.m. these activities will take place entirely at the back of the house so as not to mislead anyone with visible light at the front.

Normally we hand out a typical array of obesi-genic crap to 50-80 kids (20 years ago more like 150 kids) as we smile, ooh and ahh at cute or scary costumes. Not this year. My husband's enjoyment of this holiday is contagious however he's out of town so I'm not sufficiently infected to bother. Not even to use the electric pumpkin-lamp instead of carving the real thing. Anyway, most kids around here clearly don't need the empty calories.